SUMMARY

• Over 11 Years of experience in Mainframe Development and support
• Over 10 years of experience with COBOL development.
• Over 8 Years of experience with IMS DB/DC and Db2.
• Development experience using PL/I, IMS DB/DC, COBOL,CICS and JCL.
• Involved in Troubleshooting, Debugging and Performance Tuning of code and supporting users by incorporating specific requests.
• Involved in mainframe architectural design and performance evaluation.
• Experience in Insurance domain especially in design and development
• Experience Gathering the business Requirement from the client and Writing Specifications.
• Experience in Code fixing, Data fixing, on call support.
• Worked as a SME (Subject Matter Expert) for Zurich Financial Services for Phase3 (Batch /NBQ (New Business Quotes) PC system/Nova (Online) System.
• Worked in Mainframe - Development and Support and Maintenance teams
• In-depth understanding of business practices in Life Insurance.
• Possess a wide knowledge in developing Detailed Design Document
• Well versed in full Software development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Experience in preparing Monthly Metrics.
• Worked as an application leader for a Support team, for a telecom client Telstra
• Worked in both Support and maintenance and Development projects.
• Experience in Interacting with the clients and get necessary information in solving the incidents at onsite (UK).
• Experience in Preparing Resource and cost estimate for Task request raised by Zurich Business.
• Good Knowledge in Designing Task Solution Proposal Document based on the User Product Specifications.
• Facilitated System transition and helped in building offshore team
• Experience includes System study, Programming, Report generation, Production Support, System Testing, Integration Testing, User Testing support and system implementation.
• Excellent experience in handling the On Call Production Support 24 X 7.
• Designed New reports to Track Incidents approaching agreed SLA dates.
• Delivered 100% of Incidents and Task Estimates within the SLA Period.
• Have been involved in solving most of the production issues, and production failure.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Mainframe: PL/1, JCL, COBOL

Other Languages: C, C++

Packages: Visual Basic

Database Design: IMS DB/DC, DB2

File Organization: PS, PDS, GDG

Utilities/Tools: TSO/ISPF, CA-ROSCOE, File Manager, Manage-Now, IBM-DEBUG, Endevour, File Aid, ITAM,changeman,CICS

Operating System: Windows, MVS

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Confidential

Lead Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Application lead for the team of four members.
• Involved in Application Development and maintenance
• Involved in assigning the issues and getting the status of the work done by the team.
• Providing technical expertise in Mainframes for the team when the team is facing with any issues.
• Software systems used COBOL, ZOS and IMS DB/DC.
• Created New Online IMS DC and COBOL Program to execute the Menu Screen Transaction
• Analysed IMS DB modules in relationship to company new standards
• Coordinated the team for incorporating the lessons learnt from causal analysis done to identify problems that plague speedy problem resolution resulting in resulting in improved turnaround.
• Huge performance improvement made in 5 long running batch jobs by SQL fine tunings.

Environment: Cobol, DB2, Endeavour, File Aid, Incident Management Tool, IMS DB/DC,CICS

Confidential, Warren, Michigan

Senior Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in the Design Phase of the project.
• Involved in Application Development and Maintenance
• Involved in data architecture design.
• Designed an application design specification and application test specification documents.
• Involved in preparing a Unit test Specification document and unit testing the changes thoroughly and preparing a Unit test results document
• Coordinate and identify obsoleted or Migrated Mainframe processes and Obsolete them.
• Coordinate and Manage the Enhancement and Support issues with Support and Interface Teams.
• Created Test Cases to check the functionality of Application
• Check the status of each assigned task daily and resolve any issues faced by the team members with their tasks
• Communicated changes to requirements promptly and precisely to all personnel involved.
• Responsible to report bugs using Quality Center and MS Excel.
• Conducted system testing for applications to ensure requirements are meet and defects are managed under insurance
• Developed Tractability Matrix which is a proof of document to ensure that all the specifications are been tested and has no defect.
• Collaboratively work with developers, business analysts and discussed technical problems.
• Met with the developers and technical content writers on a daily basis to update the test documents.

Environment: PL1, IMS DB/DC, Endevour, File Aid, JCL, SQL, DB2, TSO, Change Man

Confidential, Warren, Michigan

Senior Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in the Design Phase of the project.
• Designed a application design specification and application test specification documents.
• Involved in preparing a Unit test Specification document and unit testing the changes thoroughly and preparing a Unit test results document
• Gather business and functional requirements from clients and Analysis and estimate the effort involved and define the scope of work
• Planning and scheduling, Risk identification and mitigation planning.
• Co-ordinated with Guidewire Policy Center integration.
• Co-ordination with different groups and clients business users & Conducting status meeting with team and customer
• Preparing Technical design document, Quality review of design, code and taking corrective actions
• Worked on the Policy Lifecycle: Submission, New Business, Policy Change, Reinstatements, Lapse, Renewal, Cancellation and Business rules.
• Delivery of entire Software Development Life Cycle (Scoping, Requirements Analysis, Design, Development,
• Testing, Acceptance Testing, Implementation, Go Live, Production Support) of the project
• Perform ETL functions on IMS DB and DB2 Tables.
• Created COBOL DB2, COBOL IMS DB and COBOL IMS DC Programs.
• Analysis and fixing the defects in system test, UAT environments
• Additionally, doing overnight support for batch jobs run
• Worked in Production Support (24 x 7) using CA7 tool
• Have received a very good Customer Satisfaction Index
• Suggested various solutions to the customer to minimize the abend & policies failure
• Coordinated the team in bringing down the outstanding number of problems to be resolved, within acceptable limits earning wide client-appreciation

Environment: PL1, IMS DB / DC, Endevour, File Aid, DB2, JCL,TSO,changeman

Confidential

Senior Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in the Design Phase of the project.
• Designed a application design specification and application test specification documents.
• Involved in preparing a Unit test Specification document and unit testing the changes thoroughly and preparing a Unit test results document
• Requirement Analysis/Gathering.
• Coding, Testing & Implementation for different enhancement task.
• Batch Monitoring, Fixing the ABENDS.
• New branch set up or changing the existing branch details for the business.
• Solving the live production issues.
• Documenting the new processes and updating the present documentation on a continuous basis.
• Mentoring new team members. knowledge of the CA7 for the batch monitoring.
• Production ABEND solving experience for production online and batch programs.
• DR (disaster recovery) testing.
• System upgrades testing.

Environment: Cobol,PL1, IMSDB/DC, DB2, Endevour, SQL, File Aid, JCL,TSO

Confidential, Warren, Michigan

Senior Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in the Design Phase of the project.
• Designed a application design specification and application test specification documents.
• Involved in preparing a Unit test Specification document and unit testing the changes thoroughly and preparing a Unit test results document
• Involvement in Requirement Analysis, Design, Build, Testing,Test paln preparation and Implementation.
• Designing (Functional Specifications) and coding (Technical Specifications) the most cost-effective and flexible Logic for programs on order processing applications where frontend application like JAVA,SWING.
• Designed detail design and prepared Program specification document for a new customer interface in Web application and Standalone application.
• Developed the code from scratch for a customer interface in web application.
• Testing the developed code from Unit Testing up to System Integration Testing. Create system test plans and follow through with the testing and documenting of the test results.
• Implementation of the Code into Production.
• Involved in Impact analysis on the production systems(environment) to identify the change management that are required to change as part of the enterprise application.
• Involved in Impact analysis on the production systems(environment) to identify the change management that are required to change as part of the enterprise application.
• Involved in Impact analysis on the maintenance modules to identify the impacted programs that are required to change as part of this new Servicing Interface on the Standalone application.
• Involved in preparing the technical design documents and carrying out walkthrough meeting with the Onsite & project managers.
• Frequently coordinating with Onsite coordinator to gather requirements, heavy documentation of technical and functional specifications, code and test programs while following SDLC.
• Provided time estimates and control progresm of assigned projects.
• Providing optimal solutions to the issues raised by the client and provides the same while handling the new requirements.
• Created and Executed JOBS, PROCS and Control Cards in Test environment.
• Involved in evaluating user specific reports on BATCH applications.
• Involved in Review of Design documents, code and test plans to implement organization standards.
• Involved in estimating hours for component changes.
• Involved in preparing and reviewing Unit and System test cases.
• Involved in Unit, System, End & User Acceptance Testing executions.
• Execution of regression test cycles.
• Documenting and capturing Unit and System test case results.
• Preparation of test data and execution of report JCL.
• Handled a team and ensuring that deliverables are of high Quality and Standards.
• Follow up Production problem tickets raised.

Environment: PL1, IMSDB/DC, Endevour, File Aid, DB2, COBOL

Confidential, Warren, Michigan

Senior Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in the Design Phase of the project.
• Designed a application design specification and application test specification documents.
• Involved in preparing a Unit test Specification document and unit testing the changes thoroughly and preparing a Unit test results document
• Implementation of the Code into Production
• Used IBM utilities for DB2 table maintenance, including loading, Unloading and DML modifications.
• Experience in load/unload data with DB2 databases using JCL’s.
• Involved in estimating hours for component changes.
• Involved in preparing and reviewing Unit and System test cases.
• Involved in Unit, System, End & User Acceptance Testing executions.
• Execution of regression test cycles.
• Documenting and capturing Unit and System test case results.
• Preparation of test data and execution of report JCL.
• Preparation of restore jobs that will create the test datasets from the production data snapshots which will be consumed by the run JCL.
• Preparation of test data using File-Aid/Insync.
• Preparation of the VSAM and GDG datasets by defining the corresponding control cards for the IDCAMS.
• Execution of MVS runs and capturing reports into data sets for the comparison.
• Running file compares before and after execution of Input/Output files to make sure they are in sync.
• Root cause analysis of the non matching reports.
• Fixing the application programs for any non-compliance.
• Documentation of the report analysis and file compare analysis results to be approved by the client.
• Handled a team and ensuring that deliverables are of high Quality and Standards.

Environment: PL1, IMS DB/DC, DB2, Endevour, File Aid, COBOL, JCL,VSAM